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  1. Paisley

    Dinner Party Etiquette

    I've known people whose MILs assumed they were welcome anytime. All those people are divorced now. Back to the topic, if you think you might arrive very early, it's nice to bring a book or magazine and entertain yourself.
  2. Paisley

    Dress forms

    I use a tailor. I'm not very good at sewing.
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    Transform your T-Shirts

    There's a book out called Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt about reworking t-shirts into different garments, bags, etc. You don't have to sew to do some of the projects. A description of the book from Amazon.com: The scope of Nicolay's how-to book is broader than its title...
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    Hats as protection against the sun and the elements.

    My uncle Loren was a lineman in California for many years. He wore a cowboy hat, but it didn't protect him from getting skin cancer and macular degeneration.
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    Hats as protection against the sun and the elements.

    From http://chemistry.about.com/od/howthingsworkfaqs/f/sunscreen.htm: Sunscreen combines organic and inorganic chemicals to filter the light from the sun so that less of it reaches the deeper layers of your skin. Like a screen door, some light penetrates, but not as much as if the door wasn't...
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    Hats as protection against the sun and the elements.

    I put on sunscreen 365 days per year and wear UV protection sunglasses if it is bright outside. In the summer, I wear a Tilley hat. To quote their web site: CERTIFIED SUN PROTECTION: The fabric and style of all Tilley Hats have been certified to block 98 percent of harmful UVA/UVB radiation...
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    Store Brands

    I had three pairs of jeans from Lands' End that I wore for four years. They were my only jeans, and only recently began to look just a little shabby. I just bought two pairs of jeans from LL Bean--they seem well made.
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    Am I Too Old?

    This sounds more like growing bored than growing old. That can happen at any age.
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    Am I Too Old?

    It seems that those who do push the boundaries have fewer illusions. They learn where the boundaries are and expand them at the same time. I find it interesting that (so I have read) athletes tend to hit their peak in their 20s, not their late teens when humans are at their physical prime...
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    "Here's looking at you, kid" and what might get you slapped

    You said it before I could.
  13. Paisley

    Am I Too Old?

    lol I feel my age in my stomach. Hello, antacids.
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    Am I Too Old?

    Well... Skeet, thanks for your post. :) I appreciate your outlook, even if I respectfully disagree with a few points. Some people say that age is just a number, but taking an all-day dance class with a group of athletic 25-year-olds is a good reality check. Even Dara Torres, the...
  15. Paisley

    Am I Too Old?

    Yes--there are many exceptions. I was thinking more along the lines of someone thinks he's young and hip and is tolerated because he's old enough to buy the beer.
  16. Paisley

    Am I Too Old?

    No, but it helps. As for physical age meaning nothing, I disagree. I don't care how well you take care of yourself, your body changes. Your skin, your hair, your voice--they don't stay 20 years old. Neither does the rest of your body. As much as I eat right and work out, there's no way I...
  17. Paisley

    Dinner Party Etiquette

    I checked my Emily Post book from 1940. The chapter on dinner parties is 50 pages long. On a lighter note, in the movie Mame, Mame's nephew arrives during a cocktail party a day early (according to Mame): on the 30th, not the 31st, of September, if I remember right.
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    Am I Too Old?

    When I was about 25, I was working on a loading dock, had acne, drove a car that was older than I was and was dumb enough to go out with a man who didn't care anything about me. Yes, you can have young. I'm 40 and happy about it. :)
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    Does anyone use a name that's not their own?

    I've been trying to reinvent myself as a charming person my whole life. As you can see, it hasn't been an unqualified success. :o
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    Woodstock?

    If their parents didn't indulge their children, court psychologists would. One of them told my mother that if her daughter (14 years old, truant, and into trouble) wanted to have a baby, she should let her. Well, she had two. Nearly 40 years later, one has three kids with three different...
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    Retro Fans at Target

    Mine has a plastic base, but it looks very nice. The control switch is a lever on the side. If I'd had any idea people would have such an interest in my fan from Target, I'd have rushed to my computer. :)
  23. Paisley

    Dinner Party Etiquette

    I have a frend who arrives about 45 minutes early for anything. As long as he doesn't mind waiting while I get dressed...[huh] I don't think there's an obligation to keep early birds entertained. As for dinner party etiquette, all the traditions are too lengthy to repeat here. But I don't...
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